Essays and Criticisms, Volumen2Little, 1892 |
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... complex organ existed , which could not possibly have been formed by numerous , successive , slight modifications , my theory would absolutely break down . But I can find out no such case ' ( p . 208 ) . He adds : — ' Every detail of ...
... complex organ existed , which could not possibly have been formed by numerous , successive , slight modifications , my theory would absolutely break down . But I can find out no such case ' ( p . 208 ) . He adds : — ' Every detail of ...
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... . -Sensible perception . IV . That in which sensations and perceptions continue to coalesce , agglutinate , and combine in more or less complex aggregations , according to the laws of the association of The Descent of Man 29.
... . -Sensible perception . IV . That in which sensations and perceptions continue to coalesce , agglutinate , and combine in more or less complex aggregations , according to the laws of the association of The Descent of Man 29.
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... complex and wonderful as those acted by the mammal . The phenomena of nidification , and some of those now brought forward by Mr. Darwin as to courtship , are fully comparable with analogous phenomena of quasi - intelligence in any ...
... complex and wonderful as those acted by the mammal . The phenomena of nidification , and some of those now brought forward by Mr. Darwin as to courtship , are fully comparable with analogous phenomena of quasi - intelligence in any ...
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... complex emotions . ' And again : - ' It does not appear altogether incredible , that some unusually wise ape - like animal should have thought of imitating the growl of a beast of prey , so as to indicate to his fellow - monkeys the ...
... complex emotions . ' And again : - ' It does not appear altogether incredible , that some unusually wise ape - like animal should have thought of imitating the growl of a beast of prey , so as to indicate to his fellow - monkeys the ...
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... complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous , successive , slight modifications , my theory would absolutely break down.'2 Also : 1 See Proceedings of the Royal Institution , vol . v . p . 279 . 2 Origin ...
... complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous , successive , slight modifications , my theory would absolutely break down.'2 Also : 1 See Proceedings of the Royal Institution , vol . v . p . 279 . 2 Origin ...
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Página 54 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man.
Página 4 - IF IT could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.
Página 88 - ... scientific than that of the past ; because it has not only renounced idols of wood and idols of stone, but begins to see the necessity of breaking in pieces the idols built up of books and traditions and fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs, and of cherishing the noblest and most human of man's emotions, by worship "for the most part of the silent sort" at the altar of the Unknown and Unknowable.
Página 26 - It is only our natural prejudice, and that arrogance which made our forefathers declare that they were descended from demigods, which leads us to demur to this conclusion.
Página 102 - Dr. Hooker, in his address to the British Association, spoke thus of the author: "Of Mr. Wallace and his many contributions to philosophical biology it is not easy to speak without enthusiasm; for, putting aside their great merits, he, throughout his writings, with a modesty as rare as I believe it to be unconscious, forgets his own unquestioned claim to the honour of having originated independently of Mr. Darwin, the theories which he so ably defends.
Página 146 - Whence it becomes manifest that our experience of force, is that out of which the idea of Matter is built. Matter as opposing our muscular energies, being immediately present to consciousness in terms of force ; and its occupancy of Space being known by an abstract of experiences originally given in terms of force ; it follows that forces, standing in certain correlations, form the whole content of our idea of Matter.
Página 5 - I probably attributed too much to the action of natural selection or the survival of the fittest. I have altered the fifth edition of the Origin so as to confine my remarks to adaptive changes of structure.
Página 63 - Hence every detail of structure in every living creature (making some little allowance for the direct action of physical conditions) may be viewed either as having been of special use to some ancestral form, or as being now of special use to the descendants of this form — either directly, or indirectly, through the complex laws of growth.
Página 45 - Nevertheless the first foundation or origin of the moral sense lies in the social instincts, including sympathy; and these instincts no doubt were primarily gained, as in the case of the lower animals, through natural selection.
Página 8 - Darwin's theory, that the great break in the organic chain between man and his nearest allies, which cannot be bridged over by any extinct or living species, is answered simply by an appeal ' to a belief in the general principle of evolution